What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine is an invisible version of a physical computer.
A virtual machine is a virtual computer that is created inside a HOST computer, the creation of virtual machine is possible through the help of a technology called virtualization.
What is virtualization? Virtualization is having a physical Computer which serves as the HOST and many Computers are created in virtual form inside it (the HOST COMPUTER) each computer that is created inside the host computer can function separately with separate Operating System (OS).
Now, lets embark on the creation of Windows 10 Virtual Machine.
1.In your Microsoft Azure Portal, type Virtual Machine to the search bar, and select Virtual Machines from the options it displays.
2.Click +create and select Virtual Machine
It will bring you to the Basics tab
Project details
3.Click create new to create a Resource group, give your Resource group a name and click OK. You can also click the dropdown sign to select a Resource group if you had created one earlier.
Instance details
4.(a)Give you Virtual Machine a name.
(b)Select region
(c)For availability options, select "No infrastructure redundancy required" (This is because we are using a free Microsoft Azure account)
(d)The images is the Operating System (OS) so we are going to select Windows 10
(e) Select standard for the security type
Administrator account
5.(a)Put your user name
(b)Put your password and confirm it
Inbound port rules
6.By default, the inbound port rules is RDP3389 so you are going to select HTTP80
7.Tick the small box in Licensing
8.Now, go and click monitoring
9.Under Monitoring go and disable the Diagnostic disabling the diagnostic will prevent your cloud service provider from knowing what you are doing on your VM
10.Click Review + Create
11.Wait for it validate. After it has validated, it will show validation passed and subscription credit apply
12.Your screen will show deployment in progress, wait for the deployment to complete, when it shows "Your deployment is complete" Click go to resource
13.This is the Windows 10 Virtual Machine you just created. Now, click the IP address to increase the idle timeout from 4 minutes to 30 minutes so your Virtual Machine will not log you out while working on it.
14.Drag the small circle from left to right to increase the idle timeout to 30 minutes and save.
15.Click the name of your Virtual Machine on the overview to go back to it
16.To connect to your Windows 10, click connect
17.Click download RDP file
Click the download icon at the right conner of your screen and click the first box from the right to connect.
18.Click connect
19.Put your password and click OK
20.Click yes
21.Wow! this is superb, your Windows 10 Virtual Machine is ready
22.Click Accept
23.You are fully welcome to your Windows 10 Virtual Machine, Click continue
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